St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-01
MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION.
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than the pyramids, more suggestive far to
any thoughtful mind of all that is great in
conception, vast in achievement and august
In far reaching benificence. But for the
fact that others like 1t may be found in
many lands, it would attract more tourists in
one generation than have visited the pyra-
mids in a thousand years. Nothing but q
gradually increasing familiarity with marvels
such as throng this palace OF wonders, pre-
vents them from fixing the eager gaze Of an
amazed world.
might say the same OF the unique city in
which this
MAGIcIANs PALACE
finds its seat. What continent what century
has witnessed a development so swift and so
full of measureless promise as this young
giant has made by Selling the Father of
Waters and girding him to turn the wheels
of its majestic progress.
1 congratulate you, Mr. President, and
your associates in the management of this
Exposition congratulate the inhabitants
OF this goodly city, whose enterprise has
made the success of your labors possible on
manifest teachings of this Exposition is the
dignity of manual labor. After all, machin-
cry is only an extension and multiplication
of the human hand. Which of these ma
chimes would have any existence il human
hands had not made it, or any value but for
human hands to run it? Mans original
charter of lordship. over creation, included
dominion over all the earth, i. e., over all
lowed by this rough rich blessing: "In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. -
When the great Restorer came, He went
about among men till the age of thirty, a
manual toll and becoming the poor man s
friend forever.
In 1867, l saw Eugene, the empress of the
French, walking among the superb collec-
ton of processes and products of inventive
industry in the worlds exposition at Paris,
but to me those achievements of the I'M
crowned kings of toll were more impressive
than the splendors of royalty. Last year, at
its first opening, this exposition was hon
ored by having its machinery set in motion
by the fair hand OF 1.-The first lady in the
land" more than thousand miles away, but
that hand was more hOnored still.
Tell me not of the .mudsills of society,"
Speak not slightingiy and think not con-
this magnificent government of the people,
by the people, for the people" let us not for
get that the hard-handed sons of toll who till
our fields, and build our houses, and drive
our trains, and delve in our mines, are sover
eigns-blinded Samsons sometimes. but Sam
sons still. They are men.
THEY HAVE VOTES.
They are our brothers, oh, We merchant
princes, who have made themselves such
(and only these have truly earned the title).
remember the rock where We were hewn and
the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.
Never let your hearts get away from the
ranks of the lOwliest.
This exposition affords emphatic sugges-
ton of the radical difference between the
ancient and the modern philosophy. The
great burden of ancient philosophy was spec
ulation-of modern, utility. Seneca and
Plato would have felt insulted by any intima-
ton that their profound reasoning ought to
eyentuate in something practically useful
Words and mere words, and nothing but
words had been all the fruit of all the toll of
all the most renowned sages of sixty
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British esSayists. This is grave charge and
needs to be substantiated. Seneca refers to
inventions in his time such as transparent
windows, shorthand writing and tubes of
such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves.
Philosophy lies deeper. 1t is not her Office
to teach men how to use their hands," He
labors to clear Democritus of the charge of
having made the first arch and AnacharsiS of
having contrived the pOtter's wheel: and de-
risively says, I'VE shall next be told that the
first shoemaker was a philosopher Plato's
majestic intellect was dominated by the same
spirit. According to Plutarch he considered
geometry as degraded by being applied to any
purpose of vulgar utility. His friend Archy-
tus had applied his mathematical knowledge
to the construction of machines of eXtraor-
binary power. Plato demonstrated with him
Tor degrading a noble Intellectual exercise
into low craft fit only for carpenters. Plato
looked doubtfully on alphabetical writing
the most useful invention ever made-and
also on the science of medicine, holding that
q sick man was q wretch who had better die
at once and get out of the way. The specu-
lations of the ancient philosophers did in
deed afford spleudid gymnastic exercise to
the intellect, but the world is more than a
gymnasium.
THEY LED NOWHERE.
They were as devoid of fruit as the anxious
reasonings OF the medieval schoolmen who
busted themselves with such questions as
these: How many angels could probably
dance on the point of a cambria needle at
the same time without jostling each other?
and can an angel go from one point to an
other without passing through the interven-
ing space? How vast the transition to a CEN
fury in which the profoundest students of
nature and mind are proud to be benefactors
OF the masses of men, in which Sir Humphrey
Davy is chiefly remembered as the inventor
of the safety-lamp and as the discoverer of
four metals. Twenty years ago this month l
was crossing the Atlantic ocean westward
For week storm and fog had almost en-
tirely shut out the sun and stars. A passen-
ger asked the captain: ''Shall we see the
light on Cape Racer He answered: 'sThat
will depend on the fog: if it lifts we ought
TO see the light at quarter past II o'clock
tonight" Within five minutes of that time
the welcome ray came streaming over the
waves. The shades of Newton, La Place and
all astronomers of Franklin, GalYani and all
electricians. of Columbus and all navigators
of Watt and all inventors, lowered over that
great ship to make its voyage swift and safe
for the 1000 Immigrants in the steeraee
The grandest thinking of modern times girds
itself for the good OF men. The spirit of
Him who in supreme self-sacrifice went
about doing good" is. more and more domi-
mating the world.
The result of this is seen in the rapid in
crease of the comforts of the poor. In this
country, which is the laborer's paradise. the
wages of manuel labor have in fifty wears in
creased more rapidly by 45 per cent. than
the prices of the necessaries of Life. And in
the homes of the multitudes of the frugal
poor may be found luxuries. such as few
of the rich possessed a hundred years ago.
Closely related to this thought there is an
other even more profound and far-reaching
in its influence on human welfare. This
liberalizng of philosophy has been attended
by-let me rather say, has resulted ina new
conception of the rights of man as man,
and in a far wider and truer recognition
OF the bond of universal common brother
hood.
IN THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
the individual existed for the ruler or for the
state The monarch ruled by divine right
The blood of millions was freely poured out
to cement the foundations of thrones. The
old Roman empire was superb embodiment
of the one idea OF power. The Mediterranean
was "a Roman lake" One man was supreme
from the Nile to the Tweed. No other man
on earth was second or hundredth to him.
His instantaneous wtim could send the
MODEST senator to the lions without
trial, without delay, in open day;
evacuation of power. even when its
exercise was diabolical, finds vivid express
sion in a modern French painting by Ger
ONE. The scene is gladiatorial combat in
the Colosseum in the time of Tiberins.
Eighty thousand spectators are there
plebian patrician, and imperial-all gloating
over the gore of brave men. One stalwart
gladiator has fallen. The victor plants his
foot upon his neck and raises his sword for
final signal. The vestal virgins must decide
the question. They are turning their thumbs
to say: Let HIM de- He is weak, let him
die. Weakness is contemplate; power is
everything.
oh, down what weary ages 'sman's inhu-
mainly to man makes countless thousands
mourn"
This demon of irresponsible power strobe
down the centuries leaving track of blood,
to the time of Louis XIV On the ceiling Of